Control My Update: Free Tool for Update Control

Control My Update

Large or small environments have same challenges about updating operating system and the challenges are about automation, reporting and notifying end-users or administrators. Control My Update is a fling which written by VMware engineers to have more control about Windows updates.

Optimizing Data Protection: Unleashing the Power of Database Backup Best Practices in Virtualization Platforms

Database Backup

Virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere or Linux KVM supporting large scale of virtual machines now. Even, virtualization platforms can host monster virtual machines as database server. At this post, we'll review database backup solutions in virtualization platforms about advantages and disadvantages.

New Release – STOR2RRD & LPAR2RRD (7.50)

LPAR2RRD

I've published many articles about STOR2RRD and LPAR2RRD monitoring software for monitoring servers, OS, storage, SAN, LAN and other devices. XORUX has released new version of the monitoring suites with new features and capabilities. Let's review the new features, capabilities and changes.

Fibre Channel Trunking (Aggregation): Better Performance, Higher Bandwidth (>1 Tb/s)

FC Port Aggregation (Trunking)

We are all knowing LACP on ethernet network but Fibre Channel and SAN network providing multipathing I/O by using logical and physical paths as single device on operating system and also using path selecting policies for using I/O paths optimized. But if server using 16Gb/s FC HBA, so there is no bandwidth aggregation. Server can generate bandwidth for each port up to maximum speed of port and also path selecting has performance impact of server when large paths are presented to server. Months before, I was thinking about FC port aggregation and did many searches but I didn't find anything until now.